The First Lady of Song The First Lady of Song
Billie Holiday wasn't just adored by her fans but by her friends and colleagues as well.
Jun 9, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Robert Christgau
Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him Pete Seeger: Ain’t No One Like Him
As part of a nationwide festival of tributes to Pete Seeger in 2005, Studs Terkel offered this essay on the life and times of an American balladeer.
Apr 28, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Studs Terkel
Tangled Up in Bob Tangled Up in Bob
In or around 1965, human nature changed.
Apr 7, 2005 / Books & the Arts / David Yaffe
Quartet for the End of Time Quartet for the End of Time
When David Spencer Ware was a baby, his mother pronounced a blessing over him. Go See the World became the title of the saxophonist's first major-label record, for Columbia.
Mar 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Finding Neverland Finding Neverland
At this writing, the first prosecution witnesses have begun testimony in the case of People v. Michael Joe Jackson.
Mar 16, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jody Rosen
Stankonia Stankonia
Fifty years ago, a young Polish journalist named Leopold Tyrmand lost his job at the country's last surviving independent publication, the Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny, ...
Feb 24, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Brian Morton
Music for Change Music for Change
Springsteen's got it right: No retreat.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Jenny Toomey and Rob Rosenthal
Geezerstock Geezerstock
When I was a kid--this was before television--the radio was my best friend.
Jan 13, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Paul Krassner
Rapping on Empty Rapping on Empty
Several weeks ago the 32-year-old hip-hop superstar Eminem, America's staunchest and most spectacular amoralist, found himself in an unusual position, suddenly cast as the moral ...
Dec 22, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Jody Rosen
Little Big Man Little Big Man
No musical life has been told more often than Wagner's. Biographies have wafted incense around him, or been incensed by him.
Nov 24, 2004 / Books & the Arts / Paul Griffiths